[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] It is true they had located and occupied a few trading-posts in and around New York Bay, as well as in distant parts of New Xetherland— in Delaware Bay, on the upper Hudson at Albany, and on the Connecticut River. But these enterprises represented in no case creditable colonizing en-deavor. It has been seen that, in the years 1639 and 1610, Cornelius Y an Tienhoven, as the representative of Director-General Kieft, purchased from the Indians, first, a large Westchester tract called Keskeskeck, and, second, lands covering generally the southeastern section of this county and extending to the Norwalk River. This was done to fore-stall English claims to priority of possession, at that time conspicu-ously in course of preparation. But even in this matter of land pur-chases the Dutch were scarcely aforetime of the alert English. To the latter, also, the Indians executed a deed of sale, embracing exten-sive portions of Westchester County, and nearly as ancient as the first Dutch land deed. On July 1, 1610, Captain Nathaniel Turner, in be-THE EARLIEST SETTLERS b<